Geoffrey Moncton
Author | : Susanna Moodie |
Publisher | : New York : De Witt & Davenport |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Canadian literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Susanna Moodie |
Publisher | : New York : De Witt & Davenport |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Canadian literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Harry Thurston |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780773512870 |
Susanna Moodie has long been acknowledged as a key figure in pre-Confederation Canadian literature but most of her work has been overlooked or ignored by scholars and readers. The Work of Words not only provides the first comprehensive examination of the whole of Moodie's writing but also revolutionizes Moodie scholarship by overturning the myths that have cast her as pioneer heroine, one-woman garrison, or paranoid schizophrenic.
Author | : Susanna Moodie |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2020-08-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752416025 |
Reproduction of the original: The Monctons by Susanna Moodie
Author | : Christine Fisher |
Publisher | : Grosvenor House Publishing |
Total Pages | : 719 |
Release | : 2022-06-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1803811552 |
A family containing six authors is special. When three of them independently become famous, the family is extraordinary. Such was the Strickland family, six sisters and two brothers, brought up in Suffolk, England with Lancastrian forbears and Canadian descendants. 'The Strickland Family' interweaves family letters, writings and newspaper items, allowing the family members to tell their own fascinating and varied life stories. Set in England and in Canada, their lives stretched from 1794 when King George III was on the throne, past celebrations for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Their father was a wealthy self-made man who believed that girls should be as well-educated as boys. The home education he devised for his daughters was of great breadth and depth. His sons were his two youngest children and went to schools. However a business deal went wrong in 1815 and he died in 1818 before he could re-coup the losses. He left his widow with debts, not income, and his sons' education was cut short. After his death, life for his family was a struggle, but they survived and to varying degrees prospered. Three of the family (Sam Strickland, Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill) were early emigrants to Canada. Their first homes were primitive log cabins in small forest clearings. As time passed and Canada developed, Sam became a successful farmer and businessman. His sisters struggled with Canadian pioneer life but both achieved long-lasting fame as writers - Susanna as a poet and novelist, Catharine through her writing for children and her botanical studies. Agnes Strickland was the most famous member of the family. She attended the Court of Queen Victoria and was a house guest in some of the grandest houses in Britain. Her sister and sometime co-author (Elizabeth Strickland) insisted on remaining anonymous, despite the complications this caused when their series of royal biographies 'Lives of the Queens of England' became an outstanding success. Agnes followed this with a biography of Mary Queen of Scots, which she considered her most important work. Jane Margaret Strickland, despite ill health and being the sister who stayed at home to care for their ageing mother, was also an author of note. Her many works included a history of Rome and a biography of her sister, Agnes. Of the two non-authors in the family, one (Sarah) became, in her second marriage, the wife of Richard Gwillym, a wealthy and well-connected vicar in Lancashire. The other (Tom) joined the merchant navy aged fourteen. As captain of beautiful but hazardous sailing ships, his working life took him all round the world. Despite the distances which separated them, family ties remained strong and they helped each other in times of need. Their interwoven biographies trace many of the changes and main events in Canada and England in the 19th century.
Author | : Elizabeth Helen Thompson |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780773508323 |
In The Backwoods of Canada and The Canadian Settler's Guide, Catherine Parr Traill described a pioneer woman's role on the Ontario frontier, presenting an idealized portrait of the Canadian woman pioneer in the mid-nineteenth century. By transposing this figure into fiction, Traill managed to create what was, in effect, a new fictional character type: the pioneer woman.
Author | : George Flavel Danforth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1208 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Susanna Moodie |
Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2014-02-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0776621246 |
Flora Lyndsay is Susanna Moodie’s prequel to Roughing it in the Bush and Life in the Clearings. Though Moodie fictionalizes herself in the context of this novel, Flora Lyndsay remains a close personalized record of her family’s experiences in planning their emigration and crossing the Atlantic. Despite the limited critical attention it receives, Flora Lyndsay reveals Moodie’s style, her sense of form, and her distinctive approach to writing female autobiography. This edition, complete with a wide corpus of endnotes, an extensive list of emendations, and a critical introduction, helps address this oversight and gives a closer look at the iconic phenomenon that is Susanna Moodie.
Author | : Mercantile Library of Philadelphia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Library catalogs |
ISBN | : |